The conflicting majority and minority reports of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws complete in one volume.

Bound in cloth with gilt lettering and spine decoration for the Royal College of Surgeons' Library.

The Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905-09 was a body set up by the British Parliament in order to investigate how the Poor Law system should be changed. The commission included Poor Law guardians, members of the Charity Organisation Society, members of local government boards as well as the social researchers Charles Booth and Beatrice Webb. The Commission spent four years investigating and eventually produced two conflicting reports known as the Majority Report and the Minority Report. As the basis of the two reports was in such contrast the Liberal Party were able to ignore both when implementing their Liberal reforms package.

CONDITION

The binding is tight and firm. There is some mild wear to the extremities, including some mild bumping and discolouration, with the lower section of the spine cloth detached but included, and a small institutional label to the top of the spine. Internally the pages are generally clean with slight browning to the page edges. There are ink stamps from the Royal College of Surgeons on at least the title page, pages iii, xi, 1, and to the rear of the plates. Overall the condition is very good.

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